[cobythedog]

>Who said it should be picked for web development?

These perhaps?:

https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket

https://github.com/actix/actix-web

https://github.com/carllerche/tower-web

Not saying that is the primary use, but still a valid question as long as these libraries are being built/pushed.

[steveklabnik]

Additionally, npm is a production user that runs at least one web service that we know of, for example.

[coldtea]

A web service is not web development though. At least I didn't consider "web development" in the parent's sense with "running a backend REST service", but more like "running websites".